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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Cliven Bundy racist?

To be honest I haven't given much thought to Mr.
Cliven Bundy's story. He was at the center of a dispute with a federal
government agency over lack of payment for grazing rights for his
cattle. For those who generally distrust the federal government he
galvanized them until I hear about this:

“I
want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr.
Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas,
“and in front of that government house the door was usually open and
the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a
dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They
didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for
their young girls to do.

“And because they were
basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked.
“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail,
because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered,
are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life
and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They
didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

OOOF!

Now,
this man has become a racist and some Republican politicians,
activists, and talking heads who supported him are starting to back off.

I
can never say for sure what's in a man's heart. Perhaps the more he
started talking to the press the more likely something like this would
come out. Does he really believe this about Blacks? Is this what he
truly believes? Could he have made his point without saying Blacks
should just remain slaves?

I don't know but that's not
to deligitimize some of the questions he brought up in the first place.
Especially in light of his conflict with the federal government over
grazing rights for his cattle. Besides while he was illegally allowing
his cattle to graze over federal land without compensating them, I
suppose it's right to fight against the government when they attempt to
take away a man's livelihood - that is being a cattle rancher.

I only wish I knew what to say about this. Is Mr. Bundy just another extremist with unfortunate racial views?